Prosecutors said the officials used public money to pay for $250 Yankee tickets; $260 tickets to “Follies” on Broadway and $1,027 for brunch at The River Café.

On a trip in 2003, they had only eight hours of scheduled meetings, yet they spent six nights at the lavish Ritz-Carlton, checking in on a Saturday night, even though no business meetings were scheduled for Sunday.

They also saw a matinee of “Jackie Mason’s Laughing Room Only” followed by dinner at Atelier on Central Park South.

Former Councilwoman Rosemary Gutierrez, who came along on one of the trips but was not charged with a crime, justified their actions by saying New York is an expensive place to do business.

“It’s not like we were meeting in Irwindale or in the state of California,” she told reporters. “It was New York.”

The financially challenged California town famously lost $10 million on a botched bid to get the NFL’s then-LA Raiders to relocate there.

It hoped to build a stadium in 1987 on a former rock quarry, but lost its deposit when owner Al Davis opted to return his team to Oakland.